Asier Morais Manrique

"I work with many materials, formats, and dimensions, but I call everything drawing. It’s a wordplay that only really works in English: drawing, as in drawing out. 

 For me, that’s what it is, pulling something from within, bringing an inner current into the sensible world, regardless of the medium.

 Drawing, to me, is the shortest path between thought and reality, the most honest way I know to communicate. When I draw, I’m not trying to define anything with words or translate what I feel into language; I just try to express without saying.

 It’s a visceral process, like a purge, or like when a dam breaks and everything that was held back starts to flow. Thoughts, ideas, sensations, emotions, all mixed into a tangible shape.

 There’s something in it you could call spiritual. It makes me think of drawing as the opposite of magic, or a catasterization. Instead of turning mater into constellations, dissolving it into myth, drawing drags the stars back down into the dirt, an absolute dis-aster for divinity, but not for us commoners.

 To pull something from that invisible world of ideas, and to give it a body here, in the mundane world we live in, for all of us to share it, sounds like a kind of miracle to me, and a very affordable one that all of us can perform."

Asier Morais Manrique (Madrid, 1997) er uddannet i Billedkunst ved Complutense Universitetet i Madrid.